The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-19
PERSONAL.

Ex-MAYoR CARTER HARRISON, of Chicago, is
at Yokohama.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the war correspondent, is
a hopeless invalid.
Mrs. ROSE TERRY COOKE, who has been i'll at
PittSfield, Mass is engaged upon her first novel.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY declares that $500, COO a
year is paid to British spies on the Irish in
America
The cobblers of Natick, Mass, are about to
erect monument to the late Vice President
Henry Wilson.
REV HUGH O. PExTEcosT, the Socialist preach
| er, has accepted the nomination of the Labor
party for the Mayoralty of Newark, N. J.
SUSAN COOLIDGE, Mrs. Preston and Charles
| Egbert Craddock are the American contrib
| utors to the new English magazine Ataiantd.
GEN. PAINE, of the Volunteer, has long list
of invitations from Boston clubs that want to
entertain him within a gastronomic inch OF his
life.
HENRY f. ABBEY denies the report of a COM
bination of Mary Anderson with Booth and Bar
rett for 1888, as he has engaged Miss Anderson
for that season.
THE grave of Charlotte Temple in New York
is visited by more tourists than any other sepul-
chre with the single exception of Gen. Grants.
1t is in Trinity church yard.
REV. BERNARD CARPENTER has resigned from
the Unitarian church. of which he was pastor in
Boston, and has been succeeded by Edward
with check for $1,000
JOSEPH SELLwooD has made $500, 900 from his
contract TO take the ore out Of an iron mine at
Gogebic, Wis He started penniless three years
ago, and now makes $250,0O0 year by sublet-
ing his ten year contract
EX-SENATOR BLANCHE K. BRUCE, who is deiv-
erng lectures in the West will be introduced
10 his hea' ers in Indianapolis next week by
"Old Saddlebags' Mcdonald, who was in the
Senate at the same time as the colored orator
Miss PHaBE CouzINs, United States Marshal
of Missouri, is afflicted with rheumatism. She
is unable to attend the coming Congress of Fee
male Suffragists at Washington, but writes Mrs
Lockwood that she is with the movement body
and soul
AMONG the heaviest taxpayers Of New York
are John Jacob Astor, $235 .040; William Aston.
S170.0oO; estate OF w; IL. vanderbilt, Sl1l ,l24
estate of Robert Goelet, Sl07 1876; New York
Central, S349613, and the Consolidated Gas
Company seas
AN s-YEAR-oLD GIRL in Marlboro Conn, is
abundantly supplied with living ancestors. Be
sides her mother and father, she has two grand
mothers, two grandfathers, two great grand
mothers two great grandfathers, and one
great-great- grandmother, who is almost a cen
tenarian.
MISS JOSIE HOLMES. th5 confidential clerk Of
r. l.. Harper, President of the wrecked Fidelity
Bank of Cincinnati is utterly crazel by the I'M
enviable notoriety she has attained during the
past three months. On Monday she took large
uoSe OF chloroform with Sulcldal intent, ana
came within an ace of effecting her purpose.
ERAsTUs wInAN has another gigantic scheme
in contemplation. 1t is in brief to build ! 900
cottages OH Staten Island and sell them on long
payments to actual heads OF families who will
occupy the same. each purchaser 10 receive
sort of life insurance contract which in event of
his death VIII Cnuse the property TO revert 10
his heir free of all debt.
CouNr INouYE, the eminent Japanese scholar
and statesman who recently resigned the Office
of Foreign Minister was, like his lifelong
friend, the Premier, Count Ito, a member of the
Cho shin clan. and, with Count Ito, went to
England in 1859, when it was q capital offense
for any Japanese to leave his country. They
returned home when they learned that the
allied fleet was about TO attack Shimo-no-Seki,
the chief Cho Shin port, and thus braved death
in order to explain to their countrYmen the use
lessnss of resistance.